The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Christian Combs Accused Of Sexual Assault In New Lawsuit, J Cole Regrets Dissing Kendrick Lamar, Andy Cohen Faces Slew Of Allegations Including Harassment, Bullying + More

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

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TJM, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha Gun Represent! They're listening to The Breakfast Club Thank y'all for being like culturally You guys are family The Breakfast Club is where people get their information On the topics, on the artists, and everything like that I'm gonna like that

You guys were nice, everybody got me all nervous Why? Let's not go on You're locked into the world's most dangerous moment, shall we? If you're in The Breakfast Club, you ain't gonna bring it 120, mine is gonna not come up here Jesus, is moment, y'all. If you're in a breakfast club, you ain't gonna bring it. 120, mine is gonna knock them up. Oh, my Jesus. Is this what y'all do up here?

That's right. Get up out the beds and listen to the greatest show on earth. Good morning, yo. Jess Salarios. Hey, what's up? Charlemagne the God. Peace to the planet. It's Monday. I lost my voice. You had another surgery? Nah, I lost my voice. Nah, bruh. Last time you came in here with a different voice, you had a nose job.

No. What'd you do this time? I lost my voice. This man been losing his voice for the past week. We had a show Friday at the Barclays. This nigga walked up to the host like, hey. I mean, this guy walked up to the host like, I lost my voice. I'm like, hey, what? For real, up to the host like, I lost my voice.

I'm like, what? For real? It just be happening like that? That was Friday. I lost my voice Friday. Doing what? So he couldn't even like DJ and talk. He had to get another guy to talk to him while he was. Yeah, it was bad.

How'd you lose your voice? What happened? I don't know. Screaming at a chilling game? Probably a dance. Screaming for your life? My daughter said dance all week. So I just lost my voice.

It's actually just coming back now. So hopefully we'll get it back. Nah, bro. How you guys feeling? Last time we took a break and then we came back with a different voice, he had a nose job. I didn't get a nose job, by the way. Yes, you did. No, they removed the polyp from my nose.

I didn't get a nose job. Okay. You don't feel good, though? I feel good. Okay. I feel great, actually. There's actually a little bit more bass up in there No more bass. Yeah

No, drop a bomb for Jess hilarious Jess hilarious perform Friday at the Barclays. She performed with Bruce Bruce will be joining us a little bit later DL Hughley Who else was on a show Tracy Morgan Lonnie love? everybody Glorilla Jeezy. Glorilla Jeezy performed. It was a talent show, yes. What's the Wayne sister's name? Shante Wayne.

Oh, Shante Wayne. Shante Wayne's performed. I think she's a niece. And I'm not saying this because I'm here with you and you're our co-host with us, but she bodied it. The best performer to me of the night killed it. Okay. She destroyed it.

It was just a job of our own for her, damn it. Thank you. And I just didn't want to say that. So when I got in the car, my daughter bomb for her, damn it. Thank you. And I just didn't want to say that. So when I got in the car, my daughter and her boyfriend, me and my wife went. So I just asked my daughter, I'm like, yo, who killed her tonight? She was like, Jess. And I'm like, Jess, hilarious? She was like, yeah, Jess bodied it.

I think there was another Jess on the show. No, because I was just going to make sure. So she was like, no, Jess bodied it. She was the funniest hands down. So I was like, great, great, great. Thank you. So I'm happy. She killed it. I was so proud, man. So she was like, no, just body this. She was the funniest hands down. So I was like, great, great, great. Thank you. So I'm happy. She killed it.

I was so proud, man. I was sitting there looking. I was smiling because I'm looking, and I'm looking at the crowd reaction, and it was 18,000 people, whatever, in the barclays, and you destroyed it. So I just wanted to say, you killed it. He was looking like a proud dad. I was like, oh, that's how he'd be at the dance competition. He was just doing his job.

He was looking back like, that was so sweet. And congratulations to your cocks. Whoa. Hey. Drop on a clothesline for the South Carolina Lady Gamecocks. Salute to Don Staley and the whole gang. Yes. Third national championship in what, seven seasons? They did that. Yeah, seven seasons.

No, it's not. I think it is. The last one that she won was in 2022? Yes. And then the one before that, I think, was 2020. 2017. 2017, yeah. Yeah, 2017. Yeah, I think, was 2020. 2017, yeah. Yeah, 2017.

Yeah, your cocks killed it. Knock her front. They did, man. Yeah. Big Red was all up on them. Big Red. Big Red. Big Red.

Listen, man. They said she's supposed to be doing number two in the WNBA, right? That's what she's projected. Really? Number two or three, yeah. I know she's projected that high. Yeah, number two or three. I know she'd be like top six or seven, but.

Kaitlyn Clark is number one, they say. And then number seven is Angel Reese, they say. I know she's projected that high. Yeah, number two or three. I know she'd be like top six or seven, but... Kaitlyn Clark is number one, they say. And then number seven is Angel Reese. I know Kaitlyn would be number one, but salute to the 803, man. Salute to the Metro. Love what Don Staley has built in Columbia, South Carolina. A true dynasty. Being from South Carolina, we've never had anything like that. We don't have any professional sports teams.

That's right. So this is the closest we have to a professional sports team. But she's absolutely built a dynasty at the University of South Carolina. And she look fly doing it. Always. Yes, she do. Louis Vuitton. That's what they call it.

She's chilling, too. Like, she looks so humble and just slick. She fly. That's right. All right. Well, when we come back, we got front page news. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ and VJ. It's Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page. I want to know what surgery you had. I ain't getting no surgery, man.

It's not normal. Just lost my voice. It's coming back. Doing nothing? Doing nothing. Don't even make no sense. Yeah. I don't know either, but it's coming back.

All right. Now, let's get to March Madness. Now, if you haven't heard, we talked about it earlier. The Gamecocks beat Iowa 87-75. Great game. Kaitlyn Clark, I think, scored like 30-something points. Wait, listen. God bless Kaitlyn.

Kaitlyn is fantastic. Kaitlyn has elevated the game of women's basketball. She has. But you don't say South Carolina won the championship and then say Kaitlyn Clark scored 30 points. Okay, you got to start with the winners first. No, I'm saying she beat the record. What record? She scored the most points in NCAA history.

She did that weeks ago. And then she did more in the playoffs or something like that as well. Man, here's my point. Say the best for the last news. We're about to go to an end. No, y'all. The media has been doing this. I really do have a slight issue with it.

When you say to talk about the champions, talk about the champions, you talk about the person who lost second. Well, I was going to talk about them last and close out with Dawn Staley, and they won because we're done with Kaitlin Clark. We're not done with her because, you know, she's going to the WNBA. Talk about right now. Yes, right now. Right now.

They're talking about the Gamecocks winning their third championship. That's right. And Dawn Staley spoke after the game. We serve an unbelievable guy. He's so incredible. I am so incredibly happy for our players. It doesn't always end like you wanted to end much like last year but but my freshies are are at the top of my at the top of my heart

because they wanted this and I hope we can erase whatever pain they had last year experiencing not being able to finish it here so i'm just super proud of where i work i'm super proud of our fans i mean it's awesome yeah man salute to all the freshmen that stepped up like tessa johnson she scored 19 points yes malaysia for wiley she came off the bench and balled out she had nine points so salute to the gamecocks salute to chloe kits chloe kids dropped 11 i actually met her uh parents when i went to the Sweet 16 game a couple of weeks ago. Salute to Camila Cardozo. Yeah.

Okay. 15 points, 17 rebounds. 17 rebounds. It's crazy. Come on, man. It did feel like the refs were trying to get Iowa to win. They were calling a lot of BS fouls. They were calling a lot of BS things, but they pulled it through.

So congratulations to them. And Dawn Stolle also spoke about Kaitlyn Clark. And I want to personally thank Kaitlyn Clark for lifting up our sport. She carried a heavy load for our sport, and it just is not going to stop here on the collegiate tour. But when she is the number one pick in the wmba draft she's gonna she's gonna lift that league up as well so so caitlin clark if you're out there you are one of the goats of our games that we appreciate you she is i respect it caitlin has

elevated uh the game of women's basketball i hope she goes to the wmba Teams up with Aaliyah Boston in Indiana because they got the number one pick. And does the same for the WNBA. That's right. Now, also, Friday, I don't know if you feel it. Did you guys feel an earthquake? Did you feel it, Jess? No, I was in Maryland. So you didn't feel anything?

I didn't feel it. I was in Maryland up until we had to do the show in Barclays. But no, I didn't feel anything. We was in there. We was here. We didn't feel nothing. Really? My wife texted me.

It was like, did you feel an earthquake? I'm like, no. Then Big Mac texted me. Did you feel an earthquake? I'm like, no. Then Big Mac texted me. Did you feel an earthquake? I'm like, no. How do you feel it? He just started jiggling. Damn.

He started jiggling. He thought he was doing the wobble. He was like, the wobble ain't playing. Why am I wobbling? Well, there was an earthquake. It was a 4.8 magnitude earthquake recorded in New Jersey. The ongoing aftershocks from Friday's rare East Coast earthquake. Believe it or not, there have been more than two dozen of them.

ABC's Rena Roy is here with more on that. Good morning, Rena. Hey, Joe. Good morning to you. That's right. So many people here in the Northeast were already unsettled when the earthquake hit. Because as you said, this is not common here. And then came the aftershocks.

There was at least one as recently as Saturday morning. And that was just one of more than 30 since that quake on Friday. But look, these are not uncommon. Experts say they can happen for weeks, even months or years following an earthquake. That 4.8 magnitude quake striking near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey in the morning Friday for about 30 seconds near the epicenter, and it was felt as far south as Washington, D.C., and up to Maine. That was the second time I felt an earthquake up north. I forgot what year that was when there was a slight low earthquake.

It was a couple of years ago. I didn't feel that one either. It was over 10 years. It was over 10? Definitely over 10 years. Wow, I didn't feel that one either. I didn't feel it either. Yeah, I definitely remember that one.

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Get it off your chest You did something to your neck I didn't do anything You'm looking at your face. 8-8-5-1-0-5-1. Call us up right now. Get it off your chest. It's not around my neck. You did something to your neck. I didn't do anything. You did. You got something removed. Nothing.

Yes, you did. Probably your tonsils. Your tonsils. No, I didn't have no surgery. What's wrong with y'all? Call us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's up, Envy? Good morning, Envy. What's up, Trav? What's up, Jess? Good morning, Jess. Hey, baby.

Good morning. Charlamagne. Peace, sis. What's happening? I'm disgusted this morning. Why? I am absolutely. This is why you can never count on the light skin.

We're going to do anything for you to step in the war because he out here apologizing, bro. Cole, for 15 years I've been telling people, don't mess with Cole. And if I tell y'all, you see a shot his way. And what have I been telling you for 15 years? I have prepared myself, sir. I was in the mirror all weekend, ready to go to war with you today. And I had to call in and deal with this. Yeah, I didn't like it either, Trav.

Well, I don't have a problem with anybody, you know, feeling like they need to apologize. But here's the reason it didn't sit well with his spirit, because he was lying. He got on that record and tried to tell people that Kendrick Lamar don't got poor classic albums, that the Pimple Butterfly was weak, that his last album, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers was weak. That's what happens when you're lying about something. It don't sit well with you.

Sorry, Cole, I was going to say to you, Cole, lie about something. It don't sit well with you. Sorry, Cole. I was going to say to you, Cole. Last night, you didn't just let Nas down anymore. You let hip-hop down. You didn't just let Nas down last night. I'm still a huge fan. I'm still your number one fan, Cole, but I'm disappointed. I didn't like it either.

I'm with you, Trav. Nobody thought that Cole and Kendrick were going to kill each other. It wasn't going to start an East Coast, West Coast, Beach West Coast South Beach wasn't gonna start that this was lyricist Having lyrical sparring I said in the fact that that he brought it back. I just didn't like it J Cole J Cole was in his bag the last couple of years That what I got to do anything just cuz you can rap don't mean that you ready for war Why just because you can rap don't mean that you can go to somebody like Kendrick if you number one you muhammad ali yeah you ready for war and he wasn't ready to back that up i told you we sat in this studio friday we was in here doing something

and i told you you can listen to the song and tell he didn't really want to do that because the reason you know he didn't want to do yeah because number one he was lying that's the best you could do you're going to reach if you're going to insult kendrick about anything the last thing you should think about insulting is his musical catalog. That's the reason we love Kendrick, because he takes his time and gives us classic records. You're going to try to tell me that Pimple Butterfly is whack? That's my favorite Kendrick album. You lying, Cole. That's why it ain't sitting well with your spirit, because you lied.

Yeah, I just didn't like it. Cole gets busy, and I thought it would have been great for hip-hop, because people were into lyrics again, and they were breaking down songs and verses and bars and I just, I loved it and I think J. Cole gets busy and I think a lot of times

people sleep on Cole. Ain't nobody sleeping on Cole. Yes, they did. No, you're not. Yes, they were. Cole's always been in the big three contention. Yeah, but he's always

been like number three. And that's for a reason. Damn. And he's still number three now and I love Cole. He's from the Carolinas. He might be four.

I might put Future in the big three now. After last night, you already tried it the Carolinas. He might be four. I might put Future in the big three. After last night, I think I might have Cole fourth. Oh, my God. Pause, please. After last night, I might have Cole fourth. Can Future just put out another album? I mean, I'm not putting statistics and numbers in it.

But, yo, Future, I think he's, what, top. There's only four other rappers or five other rappers with more number one albums than Future. And it's Kendrick. No, not Kendrick. Jay-Z, Eminem, Drake, Kanye, and Wayne. That's a great class to be in. And that joint with Cole and Cameron was hard on the album, too.

I love that joint. Listen, Cole can rap. Cole dope. He just ain't no Kung Fu Kenny. Jesus. Been telling y'all that forever. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Cole dope. He just ain't no Kung Fu Kenny. Jesus. I've been telling y'all that forever. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

Good morning. This is Katisa. Hey, Katisa. Yes! What? Race it in! Wow. Wow. It's tur, tur, turkisa.

Oh, turkisa. Oh, okay. That makes it better. Thank you for the clue. Thank you for the extra clue. Don't play wild. What's up, Katisa? Good morning.

Hey, how y'all doing? We good. Good. Hey, Jess. Yes? I went to your birthday party and had a ball. Thank you, honey. Yes, me and my sister came all the way up from Virginia.

That's what's up. Oh, that's dope shit. It was a weekend up in there. Yeah. Yeah, I actually talked to you. You said you liked my mask. Hey, girl. I know that's right.

You wanted to keep the germs away from you, honey. Yeah, I think I was the only one with a mask on. Only one, only one, but I loved it. I loved it. I asked why you went to a club and wore the mask in the club. Could have just stayed home. Oh, no, it was a banging-ass mask. It had diamonds coming from it.

She was lit. It wasn't no Lord, you know, KN95. No, no. It wasn't nothing that stopped cold no no no no no okay thank you baby i'm not gonna let turkish sound like something i need to wear a mask for whatever it is it sounds contagious okay don't mess up yo i just want to say Steve just hung up. He called.

I don't know what happened. He said he wanted to give Jess props for her show Friday. She killed it. He was calling from the Bronx, but it just got disconnected. Thank you, Steve. I appreciate that. Hello, who's this? Great.

I'm Jay from Seth Stevens. I want to do a minute to the record store family. I wanted to ask Charlemagne if he should arrest the young 13-year-old guy in front of the Walmart I'm sorry last week his phone is crazy

what did he say? he got arrested in St. Stephen's, South Carolina in Walmart people kept sending me that video I don't know exactly what happened Charlemagne, you're from us most of the young guys Yeah, people kept sending me that video, Bill. They've got track, these types of officers. But my understanding, this officer has a history of being aggressive, and he's been from up north, got tired, and just come right down south. That's what they do, come down Charleston, Verde Beach, and get down.

Wow, I got to look more into the story. Now, people were sending me that last week. My brother, I'm an activist, and we had a big march over here, so we hit time, pull it up, and then after that, the activists looked at the video, it was nothing like they said. It's just a young guy swimming, but an officer. Nothing at all.

When is the march, my brother? We're going to have one. We're going to have another one out next week, Saturday. So we're putting it together by just approval rest. And like I said, when an officer pulled up, it's going to be escalating. Damn. I'm going to look into it right now, King. Thank you I said, when I answer some questions, let me ask you that. Damn. I'm going to look into it right now,

King. Thank you for calling, brother. Now, I want all of y'all to go look up that story, too. It happened at the Walmart.

I believe the Walmart was in Mount's Corner, if I'm not mistaken. Really? It's at St. Stephen's, but okay.

Well, no, St. Stephen's is right by Mount's Corner. Okay. Yeah, that's where all Chloe and Holly's family is from.

Gotcha. Get it off your chest. Now, we got rumors on the way. We got just with the mess. What are we talking about? Yes, the breakdown in Bravo and why it is what it is today. Gotcha. Get it off your chest. Now, we got rumors on the way. We got Jess with the mess. What are we talking about? Yes, the breakdown in Bravo

and why it is what it is today. Okay, we'll get into all that when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. All right. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy. Yes, my voice is messed up. Jess and Larry, Charlamagne Tha Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. You think people even notice we gone? Because they be hearing

like the best of shows and you can't just assume that everybody's heard every show. So they probably be thinking either we just talking about old stuff. They probably be talking

about old stuff. It was people that didn't. It was like, when I was telling people I was on spring break, they was like, how you on spring break and you at work?

Somebody said that to me. No, no, no. I'm not. I'm gonna put you on the radio right now. No, I can't hear No, no, no. I'm not. Because I can't hear everything. I'm going to put you on the radio right now. No, I can't hear everything. Clearly you're not, sir. No, I can't hear everything.

Well, let's get to Jess with the mess. Absolutely. The news is real, brother. The news is real. Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. Jess don't do no lying. She don't do no lying.

She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying.

She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. Worldwide Jess. Worldwide mess. On The Breakfast Club She's a culture shift

She was able to get y'all to see something And understand something That nobody could get you to see It's time to set it on Nobody even know what I'm already saying Alright, so look I got some news on Andy Cohen Okay

Fun white facts Did y'all know Andy Cohen is responsible for what Bravo is today? Like the reality hot commodity channel it is? Yeah, we knew that. So Bravo started off, shut up. Bravo started off as like an art, you know what I'm saying? Like a high-end art cable channel, right? But Andy came to Bravo in 2000.

And shortly after, NBC purchased them for $1.2 million. That's all? Yeah, that's all. It was back in 2022. I mean, you purchased them for $1.2 million. All right. So that's all. Yeah, that's all. It was back in 2022. I mean, you know, back in 2002. NBC and Universal partnered two years later, which amplified Bravo because, you know, Universal bought that money. You know. Now, his first show was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which he produced.

He's also responsible for Project Runway. Like, listen, listen, listen. I don't know how many of y'all out there watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, but that was the first time that I ever watched gay men. And I loved it. It was a really, really good show. And he produced the show. Okay.

And that was the show that made the pivotal change when Bravo went from art to reality. And it was fun house lifestyle reality. You know what I mean? Because he always had a little oomph. He then became the vice president of original programming because those people was like oh here's the man with the plan because he was like he original programming he was like really responsible for getting these shows and making him he had top chef a project runway he did a lot of stuff he changed bravo he changed bravo like i'm doing with the breakfast club because y'all was slowly dying right no absolutely absolutely but on the contrary unlike me andy is

now facing a slew of allegations and lawsuits claiming bullying harassment and unfair labor practices like everybody else so raise your crush your t's and dot your i's because you know we got this new network too so every network is doing this for real for real but this came up about andy before now i reported something like months ago about it right when he got into it with uh Got this new network too. So every network is doing this for real, for real. But this came up about Andy before. Now, I reported something like months ago about it, right? When he had got into it with the Glanfield lady or whatever like that. But it was swept under the rug. And do y'all know why?

Y'all didn't know this. You have to pay a subscription to get this type of news. These white people is hiding their tea. Y'all didn't even know that. Where had what did we not what you talking about listen i'm not revealing my sources because i pay for this a person like me is gonna pay what i'm saying what story is being hit this is what all of this stuff that i'm saying on the like oh he's facing a slew of allegations lawsuits all of this that's been going on for a the parties too right and when he was asked about it um andy kong was asked about it right he was like i can't tell you anything he got real tight-lipped you know how it is yep and you know

what i also thought was interesting he is the uh only openly gay host on tv right they they also pay you to yeah openly gay host on like like that's that's doing all of this oh yeah because i think uh james corden retired right oh you quit yeah so basically what i got from that is a lot of other hosts on the down low all right so moving on just what y'all don't know y'all they they so in a daze they don't really even understand the down all this all right next did you talk about uh that he's being accused of uh people saying he intentionally used cocaine with his employees to further promote a workplace culture that thrives on drugs and alcohol? You just paid for that?

No. No, it's not. No, it's not. Not that. Not for free. You had to pay $24.99 just like me every month. I pray you ain't pay for that. I pray you mind your business.

For real, listen. For real with some other stuff too but it's still unfolding so i can't speak on it that was a look what he just said was a legend y'all but let me ask you a question in 2002 though the way workplaces were were a place of bullying were a place of nastiness it was that environment i know charlemagne dealt it with that with it i dealt with it that's what it was there was no other than that yeah but it's also reality tv though yeah and they you know they set up these environments so these women can you know so they can get women women and men you know it's not just on these black shows right it's on these white shows as well you know what i mean like they set up just so they can have storylines and they can like you know get drama for you know right stuff

like that but i guess something happened with the girls trip a little bit too bad because they they had it still on pause and andy is saying i can't talk about you know you talk about everything that's right so laura rod is the rodden y'all so laura rod is the guy that's suing diddy he got five different lawsuits against this guy right his lead attorney is being investigated for improperly filing cases uh in federal court to garner media attention embarrass defendants with salacious allegations and pressuring defendants to settle is being investigated for improperly filing cases in federal court to garner media attention, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and pressuring defendants to settle quickly. Now, one of the judges in New York City, her name is Judge Coates,

she is submitting his inappropriate actions to the Grievous Committee of the Southern District of New York City. He has a streak of cases that supports his inappropriate behavior, too. Guess what his name is, y'all? Tyrone Blackburn. Y'all didn't know that either. Tyrone Blackburn. For real, guess what race it is. Just throw it out there.

He's black. Absolutely. He's from Brooklyn, too. Black as hell. How do you know him? What are you talking about? I googled. What are you talking about?

I googled. Who didn't know that? I googled. All right, for real right for real for real chill y'all this man will he's be yo he be coming after like some big people like t.i and tiny yeah um he bought 11 accusers who had allegations spread out over a decade to get them right and then nicki minaj and kenneth patty which is no secret he was on that case too he uh kenneth was sentenced to three years in probation behind black burn you know we'll pause whatever and he is still on this case he is not letting the rest now nikki was named in the case too but they dropped her name from it but he's still fighting

this this case with um with uh her husband and then now he's going after diddy he'd be going after some big people so he gotta have some sources or something like that and he is the reason why diddy's house is raided allegedly because laura rod because he you know all of that connects to the laura rod thing crazy and you know what i also find which is interesting all his clients he put he gets them these big interviews, right? Like press conferences. Remember that girl went on The Real about Kenneth Petty and all of that stuff? And he'd be right there cheering them on like, you better tell your story. I remember when lawyers wanted to stay anonymous.

In a lot of those cases, that's what the lawyers do. And you see any of that publicly, they'll send you things behind the scenes and they'll say, hey, we have this client who's going to say X, Y, and Z if you don't settle with us. Yeah, well, that's the reason and they'll say, hey, we have this client who's going to say X, Y, and Z if you don't settle with us. Yeah, well, that's the reason why they go, yeah.

So a lot of people settle because they want to avoid the public embarrassment. True or not, they know that in this area nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more entertaining. What's that white attorney

that does it out in L.A. all the time? I don't even want to remember her name. I'm going to talk about it. But yeah, they do that all the time. It's all right,

I'll pay for it. I'm sure I'll get it. Talk about Lisa Bloom. Lisa Bloom. Oh, yeah. She does the same thing. Yeah, absolutely. So that's the news

that y'all did not even know. All right. Well, thank you, Jess. Absolutely. Now, when we come back, we got front page news. We'll tell you about the solar eclipse

that's going to happen today. What you need to know, what you need to have with you, and just make sure when you're driving today, you turn the lights on. I'll give you all the information when you come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

You're checking out The Breakfast Club. All right. Good morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Tonight, the NCAA Men's March Madness Purdue takes on UConn at 849. Damn, don't nobody care. Nope.

Salute to those brothers. But Lord have mercy. When I say that they don't have none of the excitement that women's college basketball has around them, they have none of it. That's right. And congratulations to your Cox, man. They beat Iowa 87-75.

You see my shirt. Love my Cox. I know you love them, guys. I love women's basketball. That's right. That's amazing. Now, today at 2.10 p.m., there's going to be a solar eclipse. If you live on the East Coast, you probably will get to see it.

And this is what some of the things that they're telling you to do so you don't F up your eyes. A total solar eclipse happens when the moon comes between the Earth and the sun, completely blocking out the sunlight. Now, you should never look directly at the sun, but if you have the right safety equipment, you'll see the moon's shadow taking a little chip out of the sun, slowly blocking out more and more of it over the course of an hour or so, until for a few minutes it becomes dark as night. You might even hear crickets chirping. And if you look up, you'll see the sun looks like an ominous black disk in the sky with a faint glow all around it. It happens because the sun is about 400 times bigger than the moon, but the moon is about 400 times closer to the earth. So down here,

they look like they're the exact same size. It is a cool thing to watch. I cannot wait. NASA actually sent me some glasses. Did they? Yes. And it's not these ones that y'all got on your eyes right now. These are just some BS3D glasses that if you look up at the sun, you're probably going to end up going blind. These are so clowny. You going to share your glasses with us? No, because I'm going to be at home when this happens.

Well, these glasses that they have here is eight times darker than regular sunglasses, so I can't see anything right now. Yeah, you can't. I can't. This is crazy. I want everybody to look for the spiritual uh meaning of all of this though i was talking to my good sister debbie brown and she was saying that uh the solar eclipse new moon is potent for clearing karma uh clearing trauma energy in the body and clearing out toxic and unlined relationships of all kinds it's also

very positive for new beginnings in all areas of life and bringing and for bringing forward highest alignment and all types of relationships so what that means what a solar eclipse that's what she felt about that yes so she said you should get a journaling pen you should spend 15 minutes uh in meditation to cleanse your mind and create some groundedness uh in your in your body then allow for your higher consciousness to download in deeper truths with ease write down names of relationships that need to be shed in life and work and names of people you'd like to be less responsible for and even protected from in the dark or you're gonna be in your house oh i was gonna say come on i mean jesus christ right now all right now, last week, President Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden came together to raise twenty six million dollars.

All right. Now, Donald Trump. Well, he raised fifty point five million dollars in a fundraiser in Florida. You lying? No. So hold on. They teamed up like the Avengers and only could raise twenty six million dollars. But Trump raised fifty million by itself. itself yes that's not a good sign not at all it's going to be a very spectacular evening and people are just wanting change rich people want it poor people want it everybody wants change despite raising more than 65 million dollars in march trump looking up at president biden's march fundraising hall 90 million dollars ending first quarter fundraising with a staggering 192 million dollars on hand giving biden a roughly 100 million dollar advantage over trump the administration noting that 96 of its donations were for less than 200 but the former president

is expecting a record cash haul tonight nearly $50 million at a private campaign event in Palm Beach, Florida. I don't have no reason to believe that. Well, that's what they said. They said when he got up there and said something about he's going to make sure that he lowers taxes

and that he doesn't tax people more. They said they just started donating money. I just don't have any reason to believe that. I think that if I knew what Obama and Clinton and Biden's number was collectively,

if I was Trump, I would double that. I would say I would double that in one night. Because this is coming from his campaign. I need this to be proven. I don't believe this. Okay, well, he also said that if he goes to jail, he'll be like Nelson Mandela. He sure did say that. I was like, what? Yeah, so that's what he said.

He compares himself to Nelson Mandela. I don't believe that one either. You gotta hear it. No, we don't have audio. He says, I will gladly become a modern day Nelson Mandela. It will be my great honor. Hmm. Huh? Mm-hmm. He want these black people to love him, okay?

To just love him and cherish him and hold him. That's what he said. Yeah. So. Do you have the audio? We don't have the audio. We got the audio with it? No, there's no audio.

It says one audio, but it's not audio. We have it. What do we get? Let me hear. We don't have the audio? We don't have the audio. We got the audio with it? No, there's no audio. It says one audio, but it's not audio. We have it. What did we get? Come here. They only go after the people that challenge the results of the election. They don't go after the people that cheated. Those people are free.

Those people have no problem. If you want to challenge the result of an election, they hound you. Look what happened this weekend with two good people. They hound them and they scare them weekend with two good people they hound them and they scare them and they've but we don't get scared we don't get scared i'll tell you what i don't mind being nelson mandela because i'm doing it for a reason i'm doing it for a reason he don't mind being else he's not n Nelson Mandela. He compares himself to Nelson. He says the black people understand him because he's getting charges and accusations.

That is horrible. No? That's the only thing we understand, huh? Crazy. All right. And I just want to tell you guys, Powerball, I think, if you live in Oregon, somebody won a $1.3 billion jackpot. So congratulations to that individual. And that is front page news.

That is crazy. You went right by Oregon looking like, who is it? Who is it? Yo. All right. Now when we come back, comedian Bruce Bruce will be joining us.

He performed at the April Fool's Day comedy show this Friday with our very own Jess Hilarious. He killed it too. It was, if I had to go order of who killed it, I would say it was Jess number one and Bruce Bruce number two. Thank you. Yeah, that's what I would have would say it was Jess, number one, and Bruce Bruce, number two. Thank you. Yeah, that's what I would have to say.

We're going to talk to Bruce Bruce when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarion, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. The legend, Bruce Bruce.

What's cracking, baby? Welcome. How you feeling? Everything's good. Everything is good Yeah, this is the first time Bruce Bruce has been on the show And I want to um, you know when sometimes when somebody comes for the first time I'm gonna start from the beginning, right? Okay, now I know your story cuz I've been studying you I've been following you but for people that don't know How did Bruce Bruce get into comedy and I want you to explain your job before comedy? Well, you know, I used to be a chef I can cook like a your job before comedy well you know I used to be a

chef I can cook like a mug and you know everywhere I go I used to always be funny so I hired this guy one time I was running a barbecue restaurant old guy and he said he used to watch me in the kitchen when I first start when he first started he's watching he said you need to go you need to go on stage and I ain't paying attention he said I'm gonna bring you something tomorrow he brought me this album you know back in the day, he had an album. He was a comedian. But he was ex-nave. He was an alcoholic.

He said, don't waste your time on this job. You need to go on stage. You know what I did? I quit because I had a family. I was young. Man, I had three kids. And, man, I went and started working for Frito-Lay Potato Chips. Selling potato chips. And the whole time I'm selling potato chips.

And on the dock, I'm just funny. Acting crazy. So, good old white dude said, you know, you need to go on stage. I see you here every morning. You're not a white guy. You need to go on stage i'm just funny acting crazy so good old white dude so you know you need to go on stage i see you here every morning you're not a white guy you ain't gonna stay you funny i look comedians every friday night you know and you're gonna stay and when i took that step man it was i knew that's why i should have been my whole entire life and what made me take that step i was going through a divorce and my ex-wifewife said, you'd never make it. Why'd she tell you that? No reason. So I just looked at her and said, I see you on TV. You know what I'm saying?

And it's been gone. I've been doing it now 35 years. Now, you also mentioned that you were an only child. Only child. Your father left at the age of five? Yeah, he was four or five. He was in the Air Force. And he was a medic in the Air Force.

And he flew choppers and airplanes. And when he got out, he was an anesthesiologist. Now, was it important to mend that relationship before he passed? Yeah, I did. I did. My mother said, I just wanted to know. I remember him. My mother said, what you looking for him for? You know, they'd be mad, but my mother really ran him off. You know what I mean? She ran him

off and she was a monster, man. You know what I'm saying? Did your dad say that? No, I just saw it. I saw it. You know what I'm saying did your dad say that? No I just saw it I saw it you know what I'm saying I'm like man this dude is cool he was really cool you know but she like I don't want to you know everything he tried to do she just knocked it down like but she was listening to her girlfriends

that's why I try to tell all these young girls don't listen to no woman that ain't got no man you know what I'm saying if you got a woman if you got a girlfriend you got a husband she know how to treat her husband but a woman that don't have a man, she can't tell you nothing. But he just left and he never, ever called us. Ever. And my mother didn't even know she was divorced.

He did a non-contested divorce because my mother just worked, come home, never went anywhere. So when she said, I think I'm going to get a divorce. And when she went to do it, they said, you're already divorced. You're non-contested. You put it in the newspaper for 30 days. You don't answer the ad. Bam, you're divorced. I did not know that.

He was already gone. He was gone. Oh, he was gone. Man, I got married three more times. I found him when I was like 40 years old. So he knew who you were. He knew you were successful. He knew exactly who I was.

He knew exactly who I was. I look alike? No, my son look like him, though. My baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny how it dip over, you know what I'm saying? But I met with him, and we talked, and we stayed in touch, and he ended up passing away about 17 years ago. My mother passed away 14 years ago. Did you and your mom ever have to talk?

Did you ever have to say to your mom, Mom, it was you? Yeah. She said, you know, I was wrong. She said, I didn't care. She said, but I had other boyfriends. You know, my mom would fool around. See, parents don't tell you. They try to tell you to do the right thing, but they'll do the wrong thing in front of

you. You know what I'm saying? Those old dudes used to go with names. David had platform shoes with taps on them. You remember platform? He had taps on platform shoes. He'd come up the steps, clack-clack, clack-clack, clack-clack, how you mama doing? He'd tell me, hey come in, let me give you a few dollars.

Go down and get you a Coca-Cola, you know, something like that. I know what he's finna do. He's finna get us some tail, you know what I'm saying? He gets you, gets the potato chips. I run right out the house. You know,

I know what he's finna do. I don't want no food, you know what I'm saying? But he was cool. He was cool to me. He treated me very nice. But she had this one boyfriend she's crazy about.

I don't know what's up with women with this one dude that they like. And he ain't nothing. I mean, man, he wasn't nothing, man dog my mom my man he was he was married she didn't know he's married damn but she's over he's over there every day

every day eating yeah yeah god is a good god you know how to joke with yeah god is a good guy and let me tell you what happened when i was in high school four of us used to hang together and we saw him in his truck and my buddy said man that go you your mama boyfriend what's your mom i said no i said that's my mom boyfriend that's not my mom it was another lady so i got out the car looked at him and said hey you know i see you right he's oh hey how you doing played up come on to my mom house i told my mother i seen him with another woman he looked me dead in my he said that was not he did not see me and my mother believed it the reason she believed it because i didn't like him so she just kind of figured

I made up a story about him and she let it go But it took her girlfriend hers to see him say I saw that dude with another woman You know I'm saying they took her to tell me she dated him like 16 years man Hey, and I don't take my mother. I don't want to get married. I don't want to be okay You don't wanna get married, but this dude, I don't want to get married. I don't want to get married. Okay, you don't want to get married, but this dude's already married, so you can't marry this dude. When she found out,

she was like, she was toe up. Yeah. I heard her. And you said your Uncle Paul inspired you as far as comedy because he was the funniest person you know? Oh, man, he was funny, man.

Okay. He'd tell a lie. Everybody got to hit me with this lie. Every lie he'd tell, they're not telling me. Yeah, he told me. Paul ain't saying nothing. Everybody had to hit me with this lie,

but he was one of the best bakers in the world. He practically raised Gladys Knight back in the day. And they used to call him the sweet bread man. And Gladys Knight knew him. His name was Paul Henson Jr. And he went by the sweet bread man because he was the baker in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the man. And he'd talk about Gladys all the time.

But Gladys and I was really raised on the same street. The street was Chestnut Street. They changed to James P. Brawley. I was on 415. She was on like 785, something like that. Just right up the street, like two blocks up. Did you know her? No, no.

I was a little kid. But she lived there with her first husband. You know what I'm saying? But Gladys is a girl, though, man. Wow. How were you able to translate your funny to actually make a career of it with somebody like Uncle Paul

who was funny couldn't? I don't know. Uncle Paul was just scared to go on stage. He was scared. See, black people back in the day had the skill to do everything, but they were scared to do it.

They had so much fear. See, like young kids now, they'd do it. They'd be like, I don't care, I'll do it. So I just took it and ran with them. Uncle Paul was one of the best bakers in the world.

He went against bakers from France and Italy, you know, from England. And he beat them all out. You know what I mean? Then he went to he had a cheesecake that he made. It was one of the best cheesecakes in the world. And they tricked him out of it. And didn't have sense enough to get a lawyer and everything. Gave him like $10,000.

They clapping. He was all happy. When he stole the dressing. Yeah. When he could have got $100 million. You know what I'm saying? But just didn't have the sense and the knowledge to do that at the time. You know, I wanted to know, as a child, was Bruce Bruce big as a child?

No, man. I was a little bit. They used to call me Little Bruce, man. I didn't get fat until I got married. I don't know why I got married. All that kid, your uncle? Oh, my God. I wouldn't eat it, man.

I was just a little bitty dude, just running around, just messing with everybody. I was a little bitty kid, man. But when I got married, I got fat. You know, that's what happened to us as black men. We get complacent. We get complacent with jobs. We get a job. Let's just say germ motors.

We make a little money. Oh, man, that's a good job. I don't care nothing about a good job. It's about getting out there, getting it, because it's more than that than getting a good job. I ain't like that question, by the way. What you mean? I ain't like the question he asked. Was Bruce Bruce little as a child? I mean, was he a big child?

I wasn't no fat kid, man. He thought I was a little fat. He thought I just couldn't clap my hands. Of course he was little as a child. He was a kid. A little fat kid couldn't clap his hands. Yeah, I'll clap my hands. You know? But no, man, I was a little kid. Little cute joker, man,

running around messing with everybody. And, you know, we seem to lose focus, and that's what happened. You lose focus, you start eating crazy. But now I'm back at it. Man, I'm 62 years old, man. Wow. All right, we got more with Bruce.

Bruce, when we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Yes, I lost my voice. Chet Solarius, Charlamagne charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with bruce bruce now i got a question what's the most difficult city for you because you're on the road

what five days a week four days a week seven shows every you know every week what's the toughest city for you i'm gonna be honest i never had a tough city. I've had some tough crowds when the comedy clubs hold these people hostage. You know, like, let's just say first show is at 7. Mm-hmm. Second show's supposed

to start at 10. All right, they let the first show run over. These people are coming to the show at 10 o'clock or outside waiting. They pissed off. They pissed.

Mm-hmm. They pissed, you know? So you got to really go to work to make them laugh, you know, or go and say something like this. Y'all have been at work and they want to be there. They be like, yeah. That's the way I feel now.

You know what I'm saying? So when you break the ice with them, you got them. Once you get them, you got them. But you got to run the clubs on time. And it's hard dealing with us as black people. It's hard to deal with a lot of black people, man. But the white clubs, they be on it, bam, because they realize the money they can make in the short length of time. You know, you just made me think about when it come to doing business with black people

and white people because i love doing business with with my people right but i don't think we often look at it as business like it's almost like it should be a personal transaction it's always hook up you want anything yeah yeah because people people call my manager and be like me and bruce go back 15 i don't even know this brother. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I met him at the gas station. And you don't know me, bro. Maybe I come across like you do know me, but you don't know me.

They'll call and be like, we discussed a deal and he said he would do it for this. That's not true because I don't discuss money at all with anybody. But they always think it's like a partner thing when it should just be business. That's right. Do you remember your best show and you remember your worst show? Yeah, man. I can remember a lot of them

but people don't know it. I knew it. I can remember my first, I mean, I come off stage and tell a guy, I didn't like that show. Well, people thought it was great

but I'd be like, I didn't like that show. What was your worst show? Because they said, you don't write things down, it's just awful promotion. I'll come off the cuff. One time I was in Houston, Texas

and I was doing this show and i was joining everybody out and this dude came up and joined me and he was funny his buddy said man go up there go you know you go up there and join him he said i look like a pickle jar you know and i started like damn that's funny bro i said i'm gonna keep that you know he's telling me like a pickle job i like oh my god that's funny but the crowd loved it because I took it so well I didn't go off you know it was really funny

when he said it and the best show I ever did was years and years and years ago is when Bernie Mac was red hot Bernie Mac was super hot

and it's a part of Georgia called Macon, Georgia and it's about an hour from Atlanta and Bernie was performing he had a 5,000 seater and the feature didn't show up and the guy said hey man my feature didn't show can the guy say hey man my features and show can you come

down open up for Bernie Mac I said yes you know I had been in the game there about five years yes and I drove down there quick as I could and I was on stage and I can remember Bernie Mac had his arm folded looking at me he said who's that dude right there it's in his blue spruce he said he is funny but Bernie went up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice in my whole entire life.

Macon, and then I worked with him in Columbia, South Carolina one time. 83. That's it. But Bernie was a bad dude, man.

And people don't realize when he did I'm Not Scared of You on Def Jam, he made that up right then. Because everybody was coming up,

they was having a hard time here in New York. Def Jam, they was getting it to them. You know, New York, you know hold no punches, you know I'm burning sick man I ain't scared of them up and he went up and did him and Capri went together on it He ripped it man. Bernie was bad. Was that the funniest comedian you have worked with? No, man I know some funny comedians now like Tony Robbins is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh. You know who Tony Robbins is?

Oh my god, Tony Robbins told me he used to date a girl her breath was so bad it smelled like a horse's hiccups. So, damn, who think of that?

Who think of a horse's hiccups? You know what I'm saying? He makes me laugh. Mike Epps. Mike Epps is one of the dudes I trained back in the day. Mike used to be on the road with me. Mike moved from Indiana

to Atlanta. I used to take him on the road with me and then he moved to New York and he called me one day said man they want me to audition for friday's i said what you waiting on i said looking for somebody like you and he called me a week later said i got the part i said you're on your way dade that's my man now we've seen uh cat williams uh pulled out his chopper a couple of months ago he was firing at everybody what was your thoughts because you know a lot lot of that stuff was inside that became outside.

Well, I think Cat just told how he felt, man, and what's been going on in his life for real. And he just got fed up with it. You know, when people dog you out, let's just say this. I used to tell people I had a club in Atlanta. It's called Club 559. And I used to tell my securities, I said, listen, when you have an altercation with a guy, be careful because they don't forget you. You don't be able to forget about them.

So if you throw them out the club, throw them on their head, and they be like, I'm not going to forget that. They won't forget you. That's real. But you be able to forget who that was. And you had to go to the store with your woman, shopping. He brought up all you. You remember me? You're like, no.

You have to be careful. So Cat just went through some things, stuff that he never forgot that was done to him and he's coming back retaliating and he just told it like it was i mean there's a lot of different things you could take from that conversation but the thing i took from it that i appreciated it felt like it put black comedy in a in a new life yeah like people started paying attention to the ogs like yourself tony robbins like they i don't know i just felt like it just shined, earthquake. It shined a light on the people who've been doing it. And people got to understand something about Cat Williams.

Cat Williams is not a dummy. He is very smart. He's very smart. I don't know if y'all remember when he had an altercation in Atlanta with Wanda Smith. If you ever noticed, he never lost his composure. He stood there and drunk his coffee, and he was killing it the whole time. And he's just cool like that.

He's very smart. He's a smart guy. How did you feel about all these artists mentioning you in their songs? I love it. Were you ever surprised? Did you hear it before? When you heard, let Bruce Bruce hit it? Oh, my God.

I just hate when dudes say it. You know what I'm saying? I've been, let Bruce Bruce hit it. Bro, bro, you shouldn't be saying that. Your girl should say it, but not me. Not you, bro. He said that on the text this morning. Oh, my goodness.

Did he? Because our producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce is already here. We were on the way in. Yeah. And so he goes, well, entertain him then. Let Bruce Bruce hit it. I was joking. It was a joke.

I forgive you. That's what he said. I forgive you. That's inside stuff, man. I just thought it was stupid. Yeah, but he felt we cool, so he just told me. And our producer told him that he was going to HR. I'm going to HR. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It, he did, I felt, he felt we cool, so he just told me. And our producer told him that when he was going to HR. I'm going to HR.

I'm going to HR. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be so easy. I breathe a lot. Why did you do that? Why did you do that? Yeah. Why did you do that?

And Biggie, Biggie mentioned you in Hypnotize. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. When was the first time you heard? Did you have a relationship? Well, what happened, I was in Jacksonville, Florida. I'll never forget this. Mm-hmm.

And I wanted to meet him so bad, because I was a fan of Biggie, you know? Man, he came in, and I was on stage clown so bad because I was a fan of Biggie. You know, man, he came in and I was on stage clowning. I was joining people. I mean, I asked the dude, I said, that shirt's silk. I said, is it silk or you iron it too much? You know, something like that.

He walked in, he said, this dude is funny because if you ever really pay attention to Biggie, he didn't really smile that much. You know what I'm saying? He just always had that look, this nonchalant

look he smiled on the video when he was on the boat movies on the boat and he started smiling he said i'm gonna put you down for it and when i heard i'm like what what was the brooks like there was a people were debating whether he yeah well did he say that yeah it was like bruce bruce who do something to us talk goes through us girls do us want to they screw us. Ooh, me, Poppy, and Puff. It was just love he showed me. He was a cool guy, man. And I actually saw him smile and laugh because I never saw him smile. He just always had this, like, heart

look. Like, you know, he read the fight, but he was really funny. He was fun to be around. So he told you he was going to put you on? Yeah. Okay, so that's how you know it was. Yeah. I listened to it over and over. I just kept commenting. I just kept repeating it. Listened to it over and over. I just kept commenting. I just kept repeating it. I listened to it over and over. And that was love.

That was real love. All right, we got more with Bruce Bruce when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. We are The Breakfast Club. Comedian Bruce Bruce is still here. Charlamagne?

Now, out of Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, and Comic View, which one had the most impact on you? Comic View. Def Jam first. Def Jam was the starting. Come on now. We got to give it to Russell Simmons. I mean,. Def Jam first. Def Jam was the starting. Come on now, we got to give it to Russell Simmons. I mean, big up for him.

Def Jam was good, but when I did Comic View, see, Comic View started out as Coast to Coast. I don't know if y'all remember that. They used to come out to your city and come to a club and film you and then take it back

and D.L. was the host there and he's like, look, went all the way down to Atlanta at a club called the Comedy Act Theater and we seen this guy Bruce Bruce and they show me. And I was the host there. And he's like, look, went all the way down to Atlanta at a club called the Comedy Act Theater. And we seen this guy, Bruce Bruce, and they showed me. And I did the Coastal Code when they first started. But I never forget the year that I host. It was probably the best year for me that I have ever experienced in my life.

They went from 10,000, 10 million viewers to 20 million viewers when I host. And it was great for me. It was good. I made some money they gave me money for wardrobe that's why i dressed in all them suits because i thought i was a pimp you know i'm saying i thought i was a straight up pimp why do you help so many comedians comedians talk about that you've helped so many comedians in their career in their life what gives you the energy because a lot of people be like i ain't helping him because he might get

bigger than me but you you talked about so many comedians oh my god yeah but so many helped me i never forget when I first, when I was in the comedy act here in Atlanta and John Witherspoon came to Atlanta and he looked at me, he say, you got it. He said, you really got it.

He say, I like you. So he started telling me what to do and what not to do. And he helped me, took me up on his wing. Rinaldo Ray did the same thing. He helped me on BET when I, he was my cohost. People don't realize. Rinaldo Ray did the same thing. He helped me on BET when he was my co-host. People don't realize that Rinaldo Ray was a college professor before he started doing comedy.

He was extremely smart. And he would tell me sometimes, he'd say, turn your body to the right a little bit when you tell that joke. It'll work better. And I'm like, how's that going to work better? And it worked better. And then the last of the Mohicans who really told me, he say, you won't have to find them and they will find you.

His name was Paul Mooney. Wow. The legend. Paul Mooney. He told me that. Rodney Winfield. Y'all remember Rodney Winfield? Mm-hmm.

That my man took me. He say, a lot of these jugglers don't like you. It's because you're funny. He says, keep being funny. You're going to be all right.

He used to call me and do shows with him. You know, back in the day, man, somebody say, man, we got a show paying $300. I'm like, let's go. You're going to be all right. You just call me, do shows with him. You know, back in the day, man, somebody say, man, we got a show paying $300. I'm like, let's go. These new kids now, you say, man, I got a show for you. How much they paying?

Hold it, player. Hold it. You ain't been seeing Walking By TV, much less on TV. So what is you talking about how much they paying? If I tell you about a show, I'm going to make sure you get paid. Just that simple. You think social media helped or hurt comedy? Oh, it helped it helped it charlamagne i wish i had social media 35 years ago only thing we had was going to city early do radio try to do tv to get people in there the social media

is a platform that really helped a lot of young comedians now now veteran comedians like myself they get pissed because all the new young comedians are coming up faster i've been doing comedy for 25 years 30 years and he ain't been doing comedy for three months i'll tell them like this if you can't beat them and they're winning so you might as well fall in the footstep they are winning but that's why them young comedians feel like that's why they're asking how much. Right. Because they're following on social media. Yeah, but then

the only thing about it, Charlamagne, is when they do get booked, only thing they got to say is what they did on social media. That's right. You got to bring out

more than that. That's right. You know, you got that seven minutes you got, oh, it's fine. But what about this other 20 minutes

they need you to do? You can tell when a person is bombing because they'll start talking real positive. You know, we need to take care of these kids, man know hey man support these women man hey man these women need to support they need to respect they bombing like hell yeah they're trying to get positive

that's the favorite part of a comedy show you know what it is i like to see somebody try to dig themselves out of a hole when they bomb oh my god if you see me laughing really hard it's probably because you up there stinking because i remember seeing you because i watch you guys all the time i remember seeing you on uh ridiculousness right chanel west coast you made her so mad you see you was coming you say i never seen you on anything i never seen you rap with i rap with snoop she got pissed they went to commercial i think it happened twice am i right no it was in one that one time she was but do she rap I don't yeah yeah

I think she did okay okay but I didn't know it but I looked at you and I'm like oh my god she's pissed she got pissed

she moved that hair back it's a commercial commercial and she came back she was more calm yeah we're back here trying to be the pissed her off

he said I never seen you on nothing I never seen you with Snoop I never seen you too short I never seen you with Snoop I never seen you in Too Short I never seen you she was pissed I laughed so hard at that that was so good

how big of a deal is it now for a comedian to have a special does it even matter well let me you know it's funny you said that man specials are good I just got signed

for a Netflix special okay and the reason I just took it I wasn't gonna do it I was gonna do it myself like make them buy you know what I'm saying but they offered it to me was going to do it myself. Like, fit me, make them buy.

You know what I'm saying? But they offered it to me. We're going to do it. We're going to do it, I think, around August. They shoot in Atlanta? No. No, no, no. We're going to go somewhere else.

I want to go somewhere else. I want somebody to think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm saying? In Atlanta. You're still in Atlanta? No, I'm just average. What's up, Bruce? What's happening, man? You see me in the grocery store.

Bruce, what's happening? I go somewhere like Chicago or Texas. Oh, my God. That's where I want to go. And Atlanta is my city. I love it. I still live there. And I had a place in L.A. for like 30 years.

L.A. is just L.A. They make you pay for the weather. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything is just so high. It's just ridiculous. It is. I've got a couple more questions.

There's a stigma about black comedians wearing dresses to be funny or having to wear a dress to get to that next level what's your thoughts on that well you know i'm gonna be honest with you man i did i did it's funny you said that i did a tv show that i take one time never came out it's called bruce bruce bounty hunters i was a bounty hunter i played a bounty hunter i played a preacher called reverend get money it was reverend get money and i played a mother named mother marshall which was crazy but mother mother Marshall was a real lady in my church that I mimic. I copied off her.

And I also played, um, I did it in Indianapolis and I did not feel comfortable in that dress. You know what I'm saying? At all. And some people could do it. Some people, if it worked for you,

it do a flip. Wilson did it when he did Geraldine, you know, cause flip Wilson show was a variety show, which I love because it wasn't a black show was a show for everybody and that's what people got to understand but if they want to dress up in a dress do your thing you know but that's not my thing tyler perry made it big he he's one of the best but to me i love tyler perry but joe is funny than tylerpper pair then my deal well when he plays joe when he plays joe joe is funny yep joe have an oxygen tank yep and smoking smoking weed coughing and i say thank you

jesus you know what i'm saying so when he plays joe joe is the funniest dude that's just me i think i love living a lot with joe yeah i love my dear but Joe's funny to you oh my god Joe is funny and see it back then it we used to see people in the dresses I even see like when they used to do men on film on a living color it was just funny like it was fun thought nothing of it men on film was the thing when they talked about Moby Dick Moby Dick that gets two snaps and a kiss and around about yeah the twist yeah why do you have to say your name twice? Because my mommy used to call me twice. My mama said, if I call you the third time, I'm going to kill you.

So my mother said, if I call you three times, you're going to die today. And my mother was a little woman, about 140. I mean, she was just loving and knew how to make her way out of no way. Most mothers do. That's why it's always good when you do get successful and you start making money, make sure you take care of your mom. And one thing you got to realize, it don't take much like you think it does. That's right.

People think like, well, I got to do it. No, your mom don't want that much. She just want to make sure she's okay, she's comfortable, and she got a little money. My mother, the last 20 years of her life, I made sure she was straight. Didn't pay no bills, nothing. But it didn't take much. She just wanted to make sure she's okay, she's comfortable, and she got a little money. My mother, the last 20 years of her life, I made sure she was straight. Didn't pay no bills, nothing. But it didn't take much. But then when your family members found out about it, they started trying to use you too. You know, my mom

going through something. Well, that's your mother. This one is mine. Well, there you have it. That's real. Well, there you have it. It's Bruce Bruce. Yeah, we've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for a minute, man, because I've always just respected you as a comedy legend, it. That's real. Well, there you have it. It's Bruce Bruce. Yeah, we've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for a minute, man, because I've always just respected you as a comedy legend, man. That's right.

You're an icon, so salute to you, Bruce Bruce. Thank you for coming. Love and respect. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess.

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This is real. This is real. More just don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide just worldwide. On the Breakfast Club. She's a coach of shit. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it on. So this news is a little bit everywhere, but I'm starting with Gerard Carmichael.

He says he is not apologizing to no damn Dave Chappelle. I don't know. Gerard Carmichael was interviewed by Esquire, and he discussed a beef with Dave Chappelle. I didn't really see this coming, but I did after doing my research or whatever. Carmichael previously critiqued his latest special, The Closer, as anti-trans and potentially damaging to Dave Chappelle's legacy. Which Chappelle, apparently he saw that and he didn't like that. So Carmichael first criticized Chappelle for making anti-trans jokes in his stand-up specials back in 2022. When he did an interview with GQ.

He took it as F Dave Chappelle because he's an egomaniac. Carmichael explained, he wanted me to apologize to him publicly or some ass like that. But Carmichael believes that Chappelle should go deeper into his personal insights and his comedy and legacy and just leave the anti-trans jokes alone. But my thing is, so Dave Chappelle wanted him, reached out to him like, I need you to apologize to me publicly. Allegedly, that's what Carmichael was saying. And he didn't want to. But you're going, you're speaking about him in the like publicly about his jokes. That's crazy to me.

Should comedians critique other comedians? I mean, all right. So this is the thing yes gerard carmichael is gay but he is a comedian at the same time yes and i'm sure at some point uh if i could think about it i probably could think it would come to me but i'm sure gerard has said something that people probably thought was too far you know what i'm saying like as a comedian like you're gonna offend like listen, it's trans comedians. You get what I'm saying? At what point do... I don't know.

I just feel like all of that is off limits. You know what I'm saying? As a comedian. That could be you at any given moment. At any time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But to give him advice on what he should write comedy about is just crazy. That's whack.

Yeah. It's like, come on now. You and your feelings. But I am surprised that Dave Chappelle was like, you need to publicly apologize to me. about is just crazy that's why yeah it's like like come on now you you and your feelings but i am surprised that dave chappelle was like you need to publicly apologize to me i am surprised that because usually dave don't care from what i know like you know i'm saying so yeah that was just interesting that was a little cherry i'm going to drop on your for your little milkshakes all right look diddy's son kane com, was hit with a lawsuit alleging that he sexually assaulted a staff on a yacht.

Now, the alleged victim claimed that she was sexually assaulted by King Combs while she was working as an employee during one of the holiday yacht parties back in December. That way was in December on a yacht in 2022. In December? It's different places with different seasons. You are so right.

You know what? I was ready to be like, because now I'm in that shit line. Because I am December. Everything ain't Baltimore. All right. I was like, hold up now, girl. Cold as hell out there.

All right. So she said she saw a constant rotation of suspected sex workers as well as celebrities partying and doing drugs. She also said that Christian Combs allegedly became aggressive with her after forcing her to take a shot of tequila now she also said that she suspected the tequila was spiked with something because she looked around and saw other bitches passing out after one drink he also uh she said that he also allegedly placed his hand

on her without her consent and touched her private area. Later on that night, the court documents claimed that he attempted to force her into giving him oral sex and that he forcibly grabbed her arms in the process. Diddy is named in the lawsuit because he's the one that rented out the yacht. So that, you know, just so people were speculating like, oh, how does that trace back to Diddy? He's the one that rented out the yacht. Now, Justin Combs, the other son, he was accused in a recent lawsuit of being a part of a cover-up and involving the mysterious shooting of his friend identified as g in the lawsuit at a recording

studio in 2022 with diddy so laura heard multiple now yeah this is also alleged by laura john this is we putting out there one of them the five lawsuits that he got going on. It was a very long lawsuit. He said he heard multiple gunshots after a heated conversation in a nearby bathroom at a studio. When the bathroom door opened, Combs and his son walked out, and LaRod found G lying on the floor in a fetal position, bleeding from his leg, hip area, and a cough, and he was holding his stomach. Now, LaRod alleged that Combs told him

to tell the police that neither one of the Combses, him or his son, had nothing to do with it and say that the shooting happened outside of the studio by a person that just came through and just started, like, doing a drive-by, like, just shooting out the window. That's what he said. But the story is G is still alive but where is g

that's why everybody wondering you know the one thing about the little rod lawsuit which i've never understood is if little rod is suing diddy because of sexual assault and not getting his proper public you know publishing or whatever it may be why is he discussing so many things that doesn't have anything to do with him yeah you know You know what I mean? Like, if this is about my lawsuit and things that I'm suing for you, why is that in the lawsuit? Why is the guy that carries the drug in the lawsuit? Why is the different things in a lawsuit if it has nothing to do with his suit? That's probably why they raided the studio when you think about it. Looking for a weapon?

Yeah. So, look, that is actually, remember I told you earlier in the Tyrone Blackburn story, who's the lawyer for Laura, that is what led to the raid. It makes more sense, right? Because when you think about the raid and how they came in with the guns drawn and the military-style vehicle, you do that when it's something like that. And the two sons were handcuffed. That makes a lot of sense like that. And the two sons were handcuffed. You know. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah.

So, now, yeah. And there was, there was, there was rumors out there that they were under federal investigation for the LA studio shooting.

Yeah. For their involvement in that. Yeah. That would make more sense. Yeah, than the sexual worker thing. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, now real quick, Aoki Lee Simmons is 21. She kisses her 65-year-old boyfriend, Vittorio Asaf. What? Look, if you didn't catch it the first time, don't worry about it. I said it right. She's dating this 65-year-old man.

For those who don't know, Aoki is the daughter of 48-year-old Kamora Lee Simmons and 66-year-old Russell Simmons. So, he is a year older than her father. No, her father is a year older than him. Yes. Aoki and Vittorio was seeing kissing on the beach and they're on their trip to St. Bart's. Yeah.

Um, sources are saying the two are just enjoying each other's company. But listen, back in an old Instagram live, when Aoki was talking to our father, she did say, if you don't up my allowance, I'm going to get a sugar daddy.

And he told her, you don't have sugar baby, I'm going to get a sugar daddy. And he told her, you don't have sugar baby qualities because you know you're still a virgin. She probably said, not forever. What you talking about? Jesus. She said that?

Yes, in one of their lives. She sure did. You know, the crazy thing about it, she's 21, he's 65 years old. That's what? 40 something years older?

Yes. Yep. And she sat, and and this is what happened to worms man remember back in the day oh guys that were women would tell the women yeah you met that old man you're gonna get worms yeah what happened to worms i don't know you don't believe in worms no more you see mr worms he probably got rid of all of them he got all that money he got ain't no worms in there but watching this she she just put out a live or when she was with him and they were talking on the live and she was asking for crepes and saying that Cartier was her favorite.

She just didn't seem- What is crepes? Rich worms? No, but crepes are like the things that you eat, man. What's wrong with you? But she just didn't seem mature enough for that age. I mean, she didn't seem, like you could tell a mature level wasn't at the same thing, and that's what scares me when somebody at 21 or 22 whatever age she is dating us 65

years if you 21 you ain't gonna never be mature enough to date a 65 year old you right okay what are you talking about no but you but you but but what the way she was talking to sound is still like a young girl little girl like crepe I want I want a crepe what do you watch it when you're crepe oh that is my favorite rest of my man it just seems gotta put it in perspective, right? Jesus. How many years old is he? 65.

65. He's 21 or 22. 32, 42, 52, 62, 47 years. 40-something years old. So imagine being 40-something years old when somebody's zero. You're looking at somebody. You're looking at a person pregnant. Do you pregnant with the person you're going to be with 20 years from now?

You've got to put things in perspective sometimes. Absolutely. And be like, be like you know what now that ain't what I need to be doing and a lot of people were saying like you know the apple don't fall far from the tree because that's the same thing that her dad did with her mom but Russell was not that much older not that much older not 40-something years older than Kimora and Kimora had posted something on her story with like she was like kind of saying like she didn't want her to do that yeah 17 okay they were 17 but not 44 that's crazy yeah wow and then they used to travel the same bus all the time as little kids yeah i guess all right well that is just with the message her news is real charlamagne who you giving that donkey to before after the hour

well in about a minute I need all you unhealed heathens who mad at J. Cole apologizing to come to the front of the congregation we'd like to have

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Goes to all of you that are disappointed that J. Cole apologized to Kendrick Lamar. If you haven't been paying attention because you've grown as hell, got a family, and don't give a damn what these rappers be talking about, let me give you a quick refresher. Kendrick decided to give a few bars to J. Cole and Drake on Metro Boomin'

and Future Song Like That. Do we have some clips of that, Red? Yeah, get up with me, sneak distant First person shooter, I hope they came with three switches i crash out like rap this melty mel if i had to got two t's with me i'm snatching chains and burning tattoos it's up lost too many soldiers not to play it safe okay if you walk around with that stick it ain't andre dk think i won't drop the location i still got ptsd mother f up big three. It's just big me. Okay.

Now, this past Friday, J. Cole decided to respond when he dropped a surprise project called Might Delete Later. And on his seven-minute drill, he threw some shots back at Kendrick. Let's listen. I came up in the Ville, so I'm good with his tension. He's still doing shows, but fell off like the Simpsons. Your first shit was classic. Your last shit was tragic. Your second shit put the ends to sleep, but they gassed it Your third s*** was massive, and that was your prime

I was trailing right behind, and I just now hit mine Now I'm front of the line with a comfortable lead High running, so I got it, now he want something with me Well, he caught me at the perfect time, jump up and see Why I got here off of bars Not no controversy Funny thing about it Bitch, I don't even want the prestige For the Grammys

Cause them crackers ain't never done nothing for me Ho, sluts Okay, let the record show When I heard that last week I immediately said to myself J. Cole needs to delete that now Don't wait until later Okay, I told people J. Cole sounded like

He didn't even believe what he was saying about Kendrick He said Kendrick fell off like the Simpsons. The Simpsons has been on for 35 years. Yeah. Right? Still at the top of their game. He sounded like he had a gun to his head and he was being forced to read a bunch of stupid-ass rhetoric that he got from social media and YouTube videos. Because if there's one thing you cannot go at Kung Fu Kenny for, it's his music.

That's all Kendrick stands on. That's his business. The music. for it's his music that's all kendrick stands on that's his business the music he is in the business of making classic timeless music that even if you don't get in the moment it will be there waiting for you when you catch up so not only did i think cole's response was weak i just knew he didn't believe anything he was saying and all that was confirmed for me last night at the dreamville festival when cole decided to apologize to kendrick labar let's listen in my spirit of trying to like get this music out, I moved in a way that was that I feel

spiritually feel bad on me. Like, like I try to like jab my back and I try to keep it friendly when I listen to it. And when it comes out and I see the top, that don't sit right with my spirit. That make me feel that disrupts my peace. So shit make me feel. That shit disrupts my fucking peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that and in that shit, trying to find a little angle and downplay this fucking catalog and his greatness, I just want to come up here and be like, publicly be like, bro, that was the lamest, like, goofiest shit. And I say all that to say it made me feel like ten years ago when I was moving incorrectly And I pray that God aligned me back up on my purpose and on my path You know I mean I pray that my nigga really didn't feel no way and if he did my got my chin out take your

Best shot. I'm gonna take that chin boy. Don't you do? You know I pray that y'all are like Forgiving for like the misstep in it and then I can get back to my true path cuz I ain't gonna lot of y'all Past two days felt terrible and let me know how good i've been sleeping for the past 10 years that's right i have feelings as a man feelings as a hip-hop fan the hip-hop fan in me isn't disappointed because in life you have to pick your battles and you have to pick your battles carefully because danger comes from trying to surpass your limits cole no he didn't really want it with kendrick so if you don't really want it with a person then you are pushing yourself

past the limit you aren't willing to go with a person, then you are pushing yourself past the limit. You aren't willing to go. And that's usually when you end up getting hurt. Not to mention, Cole said something very important in that apology. He said it didn't sit right with his spirit. You must always listen to your spirit. And Cole, the reason your Kendrick diss didn't sit right in your spirit was because you knew you was lying. OK, you knew you didn't feel like that about Kendrick's music.

You are an artist, a true MC, so there is not too many people who appreciate what Kendrick Lamar does as much as you do. Kendrick Lamar don't need to be a part of every algorithm on social media because Kendrick isn't a surfer, he's a wave. There is a difference. A lot of y'all are just surfers.

You get online every day looking for a new wave to ride. Kendrick, when he drops projects, creates those waves that people ride. Period. Good Kid, Mad City. Classic album. We know this. The Pimple Butterfly. My favorite Kendrick Lamar album. That album is Blackity Black Black. If you ask me, Kendrick re-ushered in a black renaissance in music with that album, but that's a discussion for another day. Damn is a great project. I don't know if I have it as classic status, but Cole, you said that's his prime you said that was his peak so if that's the case then you think that's his best body of work so that's three classic albums we discussing and then mr morale and the big step was i told y'all months ago in the future we are going to look at that in uh jay-z's 444 as two of the most

important hip-hop albums of all time and you know when that's going to come when you unhealed heathens get some healing when you men grow up and that's what we come? When you unhealed heathens get some healing. When you men grow up. And that's what we are here to talk about today. The rap fan in me understands the disappointment many of you feel in Cole. But the man in me who understands that I'm a spiritual being living a human existence has nothing but respect for what J. Cole did. See, so many of us lead with pride and ego nowadays. And we let these idiots on social media who we don't even know

peer pressure us to say things and do media who we don't even know peer pressure us to say things and do things that we don't even want to do it takes a real human to check himself and say man what i'm what i'm doing i don't even believe i don't even believe in i don't believe what i said i don't even believe in what i did apologize and keep it moving y'all want a man to attack a man for your entertainment because we are a culture that feeds off conflict we just have to have some conflict to feast on we like to see people at war with each other because so many of us are at war with ourselves it's really that's really that simple okay unhealed people hurt people and love to see other people hurt healed people and people on a healing journey aren't in the hurt business often

individuals who have experienced hurt haven't processed their pain or developed effective coping strategies. Their unprocessed emotions can manifest as aggressive behavior towards others. And additionally, they may replicate the damaging behaviors they have experienced. A phenomenon known as the cycle of abuse. Salute to Cole for breaking the cycle. Especially if he simply doesn't want to. Okay, good for you Cole for not succumbing to the peer pressure of your homeboys, other artists, social media, whatever it is.

Okay, you as a man and rapper didn't feel comfortable with what you did. Bravo for apologizing. Bravo for doing what you feel in your spirit. So when y'all having these combos about Cole and being disappointed that he apologized, ask yourself, what's that about? Make sure that's not your wounded ego talking. And I want to say something else. Why are y'all so controlled by other people? Some of y'all had the nerve to ride with Cole when he told you to lie he told you about Kendrick's albums.

He was right there all weekend acting like Cole was right about Kendrick's projects. Whole time he was capping and you was right there co-signing the cap. Just Friday, y'all was saying Cole is number one. Y'all had Cole one, Kendrick zero trending. Now that Cole has apologized for capping, y'all saying he back to number three? Y'all calling him the middle child again? Not 48 hours after y'all was just saying he's number one? This is exactly why you should always just do you and do what your spirit tells you to

do don't listen to none of these fools because they never know what they want please give all these unhealed heathens mad at cole for apologizing the biggest hee-haw all right you're so dramatic well let's discuss 800-585-1051 i disagree with you though but let's discuss 800-585-1051. I disagree with you, though, but let's discuss. You're unhealed heathen. 800-585-1051. No, it's not even about that. You're unhealed heathen. We all know this.

Well, I am, but J. Cole, when it came to J. Cole, people always, in my opinion, slept on J. Cole. They always had a problem with J. Cole. He produced his own beats. His beats don't knock the same. In the last three, four years, J. Cole has been getting on other people's beats. He's been getting on records with people embodying everything he put out. He get on First Person Shooter and people started comparing him. He said he wants to be number one.

He said he's number one. This is lyrical warfare. This ain't nobody ever thought it was going to be the South versus the West. Nobody thought they were going to kill each other. This is lyrics. This is lyrics. So why are you mad at him for taking a step back? I'm not mad at him.

But if you want to be number one and you say you're number one and when that person comes and tests you, you can't run away. You gotta battle back. That's like me. Says who though? That's how the game is played. Who's playing the game? What if I don't want to play your game? Caitlin Clarke. What if I take my ball and go home?

Caitlin Clarke wanted to be number one, right? And she lost. And the Gamecocks came and washed her. And she lost. But she tried and she lost. She had nocks came and washed her. And she lost. But she tried. And she lost. She had no choice. It's basketball. It's sports. But she didn't come back

and apologize. She didn't come back and say, you know what? That is a terrible announcement. I shot 35 points. It's not. There's still gaming. You don't turn around

after you don't know. This is lyrics. It's not a game. If you want to be number one, let's be number one. It's not a game. J. Colvin spitting. He's been putting to work in the last couple of years. I just don't like the fact that... If his heart's not in game. If you want to be number one, let's be number one. It's not a game. J. Cole been spitting. He's been putting the work in the last couple of years.

I just don't like the fact that. If his heart's not in it, right, and he decides to get in that booth and spit some weak lyrics like he did last week. His heart was in it before? No, it wasn't. In first person shooter, his heart was in it, bro. But he wasn't battling. That's what I'm saying.

I would have preferred Cole if he wanted to respond. Just write some dope lyrics and say you the best. I'm Muhammad Ali's number one he's the best he's saying that song he's the best so keep keep proving you're the best by just being a dope rapper you don't got to challenge somebody directly that was a challenge have you ever have you ever done a real i mean a dj battle i don't know yes i have i'm asking i have but do you do you feel the need to do them now i don't know yes because all you just go out there and you know what I'm saying? And prove you the best just by doing the work. I don't have to challenge anybody to say you the best. You don't have to challenge somebody to say you the best.

I know, I don't. And if he did and decided to take his ball and go home, he can do that too. But if you do challenge and the person gives you that work, you give them that work back. Not if you got your ass beat. It's just the apology after the comment. Like after him being in the comments.

He sat in the comments and he saw the feedback and was like, oh man, now it don't sit right with me. I think he wrote the record because he was in the comments. I do.

I do believe that. I don't think what he said. Let's talk about it when we come back. Yeah, let's talk about it when we come back. 800-585-1051. Let's discuss this

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The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, Charlamagne gave Donkey the day to who? Everybody who's upset that J. Cole decided to apologize to Kendrick Lamar. You know, y'all should be directing y'all energy towards Drake. Why? Because Kendrick's bars were mostly aimed for Drake.

I agree. Cole really didn't. Cole just caught a couple of strays. Correct. And decided to jump out there for no reason. Correct. You know what I mean? Telling a bunch of lies.

Correct. A bunch of cap. Correct. Kendrick fell off like the Simpsons. Simpsons has been off for 35 years. He's trying to lie to us and revise history

and make us believe that Kendrick's catalog isn't what it is. That the Pimple Butterfly isn't one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Are you serious? He didn't believe himself.

Yeah, well, Kendrick albums are dope. I mean, you can't belittle Kendrick's albums. I mean, Kendrick albums are dope. But I just feel like

this is rap. This is lyrical war. Like I said, what I seen J. Cole, I seen people ishing on J. Cole beforehand. Say they don't like his beats. They didn't like his beat selection. They don't like the fact that he makes beats. He doesn't do records with a lot of different people.

He started doing that in the last three years and let's all be honest, people started looking J. Cole in a different light. Who is these people? People love J. Cole. We got people like Nyle Simone who went to college, who went to St. John's because of J. Cole. Well, people are starting to look at J. Cole in a different light. What light?

J. Cole's always been in the big three conversation, Envy. What are you talking about? No. You know what it is? You know what it is? What? You had an opportunity to sign him back in the day and you missed. So now you've been trying to downplay him to yourself all these years i always i thought i think jay cole is one of the nicest

and i love the fact that he's rapping with people i love the fact that he's doing other beats and i love the fact that he's stepping out of his lane that he usually do jay cole is one of the nicest regardless so when i heard him start talking that talk like i'm number one i'm muhammad ali i'm like yeah then when i see kendrick jump and i'm like okay and i like this cole album is dope but i think it's getting shadow for for that seven minute drill. You know why? Because Cole realized, what am I here? You ever, you ever, you ever got somebody got a beef with one of your peoples, right?

And it's not even really your people. This happened to me many times. I know what I'm saying. This happened to me many times. So you jump out the window first like, nah, man, we're going to rock it. All the time. Where your man at? Where your man at?

My man back out and now I'm in the beef. You know what I'm saying? And I don't want to be in the beef. Now you're getting your ass beat while your man at home. Why you out And now I'm in the beef You know what I'm saying? And I don't want to be in the beef Now you getting your ass beat While your man at home Why you went over there In the first place? I ain't tell you to go over there

You right Happened to me all the time You used to consign people? What? You used to consign people? You had a record label? Consign? No Cause he was like

You wanted to sign J. Cole I had a couple of artists Back in the day, yes Absolutely He missed out on J. Cole And Bryson Tuller Who you have? I'm sorry

Who is on your list? Let's go to the? Who you have? Who is on your list? Let's go to the phone lines. Tell them who's on your list. You turned down Cole and Bryson Tiller. Who did you get? Who did you sign? Two artists, actually. One's name was News.

One's name was Coke. News went on to sign with Irv Gotti and Coke was a ghostwriter for a lot of artists in the industry. But I started doing radio. And I retired from that life. I don't know why I talk to y'all. I don't know why I talk to y'all.

Hello, who's this? What's up? What's up, you heard? What's your thoughts? Yo, bro. All right. So I just found out about this, like, just now during the talk of the day. So I'm freshly mad.

Like, I'm freshly upset. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Talk to me. I just feel like, first of all, I just don't feel like he's got enough work to be putting these victory conversations the way that y'all be putting them in these conversations. Who? Who you talking about?

Chemical. Kendrick. Yeah, you're an idiot. I got to hang up on you. I'm sorry, bro. I'm sorry. I got to hang up on you. He's just an idiot. But you know what? I'm not even going to call're an idiot. I gotta hang up on you. I'm sorry, bro. I'm sorry. I gotta hang up on you. He's just an idiot.

But you know what? I'm not even gonna call him an idiot because we live in this world where people feel like you gotta have a feature out every week, a song out every week. You gotta drop an album every year. We don't appreciate people who take time

to give us these timeless masterpieces. Hello, who's this? Like Kendrick. Yo, what's good? It's Ace from Daily Rapical. Ace, what up? Talk to us. Yo, who's this? Yo, what's good? It's Ace from Daily Repicool. Ace, what up? Talk to us. Yo, I 100% agree with you, man. Cole, for years, been saying

he the best, and then when it's time for competition, he backing out. He say he Muhammad Ali. Who Muhammad Ali backing down from and apologizing? That's y'all dumbass for believing he was Muhammad Ali. Oh my God. I told y'all from the beginning. I never said I believe you, Muhammad Ali.

But if you claim you Muhammad Ali, you can't be back in there when you got competition coming at you. Yeah. I'm with you. Yeah. All right. I'm with you. So Cole, now me do better.

Damn. Well, you got Cole ranked now. Hello? Oh, he's gone. All right. Call us up right now. Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. All right, call us up right now. Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club.

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We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're having this cold conversation. to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're having this Cole conversation. Charlamagne gave J. Cole donkey today for what? Because people are mad that J. Cole apologized. I feel like, you know, if his spirit wasn't in it, which we knew. When I heard the song, I said,

J. Cole don't even believe what he's saying right now. So if your spirit's not in it, and you know you just capping for the sake of capping, why continue to cap? See, a lot of people tell one lie and then they don't realize they got to keep telling more lies for that first lie. Cole's out of lies. You ain't going to beat Kendrick with no lies. So you might as well back out.

That's why I wasn't sitting right with Cold Spirit, because he knew he was lying. He said, all right, so he can't have a change of heart. He said, you know what? You know what? It wasn't even right. So why are you doing all that? You're so dramatic. He literally apologized.

That's what he said in his apology for four minutes. He said that. Like, you know what? You can't have a change of heart for some things. Remember when you apologized to Monique? Remember? We're saying the same thing right now. We are? Okay. What do you mean? monique remember we're saying the same thing right now we are okay what do you mean i'm with yes because he's so dramatic with him like what is he mad now what's going on we're saying the same exact yeah okay all right all

right so we disagree with him with envy yes all right what are you talking about hello who's this? Hi, this is DeJuan. What's up, brother? What's your thoughts? Honestly, I feel like J. Cole should have just did it differently. I feel like he wasn't wrong for doing the diss. I just feel like he didn't have good points on why he was dissing him.

You're absolutely right. He didn't believe nothing he was saying. He should have just rapped. Right. Same way he did on First Person Shooter. Just show people. He should have just rapped and said something like kendrick i'm nicer than you that's it but you come up with all of these lame ass i mean i'm nicer than you like i'm a nice guy like that's well but that's the other thing kendrick lamar don't have no stains on his jacket if you are mc what are you going to say about kendrick lamar correct like you can't

say anything yeah i mean but they both lyrically get busy but like my say i like j cole as a rapper you know i love kendrick as a rapper but i just feel like j cole's been getting to that point where people are looking at him differently and i know you don't think so but at one time there was so many complaints about j cole he doesn't pick the right beats he doesn't produce his own he produces his own records he needs to step outside the backs he needs to do more records with other people and he's been doing all of that and he's been bodying it and i think it's been showing people a different light of j cole a light that i've seen and i just feel like that's taken away and i just hate that because i think the boy get busy hello who's this this is alexis call us from charlotte good morning y'all what's happening

yeah uh i want to comment on the call i was just at a drink deal last night. I think the diss, I really don't even think the Kendrick diss was all the way to Cole. I think it was mostly to Drake. So that's why I think that Cole's response wasn't as well as he thought it was supposed to be. But yeah,

since this is a classic, I apologize to him because he didn't come hard enough. You know what I'm saying? But he definitely should delete that. I agree with y'all. That's right. Okay.

You're talking about Mike delete later. No, delete this now. Damn it, man. I don't know who was in the studio with you and let you put that on that tape, but your whole Dreamville team should be ashamed of themselves. Hello, who's this?

This is Cam from Florida. Hey, good morning. Good morning, good morning. What's your thoughts, bro? I just wanted to say I'm here for the raps. I'm here for the bars. I mean, I'm not too caught on, you know, what exactly Cole said, the raps, all of that.

Like, what more are you supposed to say about Kispe? What are you supposed to say bad about Kispe? The fact that he can put something together and get the complete diss track. That's what we want to see. They ain't give us a collaborative project, but we got to see them rapping against each other. Now, Kendrick should not respond. I mean, Kendrick already did the damage. There's nothing to respond to.

But I do understand why J. Cole apologized. I do understand why you belittled that man's work, and that's not J. Cole's character. I do get that. But you're a rapper, and I think he should have thought about it a little differently before he put out 7 Minute Drill because he gets busy. I think for a lot of people it takes away from that get busy.

Where is Drake? Kendrick? Drake is the one that keep getting jabbed up by Kendrick. It ain't Cole. Kendrick gave it to Cole, to Drake on that BET freestyle. He gave it to Drake on King Kunta. He gave it to Drake on something Kunta. He gave it to Drake on something else recently. It was not recently.

Yeah, the first person. Not first person shooter. The new one. Drake is the one he want smoking. Drake ain't ready to say nothing. That's right. No, Drake going to say something. And I think Drake is preparing.

Because he don't only got to go at Kendrick. He got to go at everybody that sided with Future and Metro. No, he don't. Yes, he do. He going to go at everybody. And then Cole said. He going to go at kendrick he got to go at everybody that sided with future and metro yes he do yeah he's gonna go at everybody and then cole said he said people was on his phone talking about it's wartime i bet you one of them texas came from arbor it's wartime you grabbed your gun and ran outside shooting and arbor ain't nowhere to be found here in canada i've been there before cole damn and then when you need help they run the other way i I've been there before. And I also want to say, too, I do not like when people act like, just because Kendrick, like I said, is not chasing the

algorithm and is not jumping on records, you know, every week and putting out an album every year that we act like he's not one of the greatest. Lauryn Hill been out here touring with one album and she in y'all top five. Okay? But she was at Fuji's album. Okay, well, let me ask you erica

badu is she one of the greatest of all time yes is jill scott one of the greatest of all time yes ask yourself how many albums they got both of them erica badu got five jill scott got five erica badu ain't put out an album since 2010 jill scott ain't put out an album since 2015 so what that mean i do you one better. Biggie has two albums. But that's my point. It don't matter. It's not about putting out 10 albums, 12 albums. As long as you put out great bodies of work that stand the test of time and they're timeless,

they will put you in that upper echelon. I like artists that take time putting together classics. I do too. That's it. Okay. Jess? Absolutely. We got Jess with the mess coming up.. Okay. Jess? Absolutely.

We got Jess with the mess coming up. What we talking about? Absolutely. I'm not lying. I'm just tired of this little conversation now. Like, all right, he apologized. He said he's sorry. It didn't sit right with his spirit.

Okay, now that's it. I agree. Drake ain't going to say nothing. Kendrick is still going to be the best. It is what it is. I agree. All right. What I got? Oh, Nene said, Nene Leak said, if you're going to cheat, do it right. I agree. Alright. Um, what I got? Oh, Nini said, Nini Leak said,

if you're going to cheat, do it right. Okay. We'll get to it next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I want to salute the Carolyn Mass 1 Gagne. Caroline Mass 1 Gagne from NASA.

She sent me a little note Said dear y'all I hope you and your family Get an opportunity To experience the eclipse Enjoy the glasses And I look forward To connecting with you soon

And she sent me some Glasses from NASA Remember he made fun Of the glasses we put on earlier He said he was never Going to wear them Because they clowned out Ask him what these glasses

Look like Oh I got to plug it up And charge it up No you don't You're a liar I do I got to plug it up You guys She got pluggable glasses It's from NASA No damn plug in glasses It came from NASA This is from NASA I gotta plug it up and charge it up. No you don't you

Plugable glasses from NASA no damn plug in gas from NASA this came in this is from NASA. Okay. All right One day I'm gonna report a story about you and you're going to see it coming. Go ahead. And you're going to disappear on air. See? See? Let's go. Who do you think you are? The news is real, brother.

It's the headlines. Jessica Robin Moore. Jets don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jets. Worldwide Mets. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coach of she was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see it's time to set it off

nobody could get nobody to see this monique angela jolie alleges that brad pitt's abuse started well before 2016 so we know that she filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in 2016 after his verbal and physical abuse assault to her and the children on a private plane. But Jolie said that the altercation, I mean that his abuse started well before

the plane altercation. Her lawyer says that while Brad Pitt's history of physical abuse toward Angelina started well before the plane altercation, this was the first time that he actually, like, has spanked the kids or whatever. And then she immediately left him after that. These allegations are coming back up after ongoing legal troubles of Pitt suing her. So they're just suing each other.

It's like real life Mr. and Mrs. Smith, right? Now, he's claiming that she sold half of their vineyard. They had a vineyard together when they were married. Please come on, y'all get off your phones like for real. Pay attention, because this is more news than I paid for. So look, now they had a vineyard together. It's called Chateau Marival. Right.

And in the divorce, they plan to split it like down the middle because they both owned it. Now, Jolie sold her half. He sold her because he owned it now jolie sold her half he's doing her because he had no knowledge that she saw her half she sold it to the stoli group in 2021 but i felt like if it's my half then it was like whatever you know but he said that that was in violation of his contractual rights yeah first try to refuse it yeah obviously none of a day april 4th of 2024 angela jolie's lawyers requested to release the proof that pitt would not allow her to refuse it. Yeah, obviously. Now, the other day, April 4th, 2024, Angela Jolie's lawyers requested to release the proof that Pitt would not allow her to sell it to him. So she tried to sell it to him, but she was like, no, I didn't sell it to him because he had he wanted me to sign an expansive NDA. So apparently it was a bunch of stipulations and stuff like it was a bunch of loopholes and she didn't feel comfortable signing it.

So she did try to sell it to him. Okay. So she could be done with it. But, he was trying to do it his little way, you know, but that's a Brad Pitt, you know,

so. So what they saying about this on white rich Twitter? Do they have a white rich Twitter? Like there's a black Twitter, is white rich Twitter in an uproar? You have to pay for it. So, no.

White rich Twitter is not outraged about this alleged abuse from Brad Pitt. Crazy. The way black Twitter would be if it about this alleged abuse from Brad Pitt. Crazy. The way black Twitter would be if it was an alleged abuse from a black celebrity of that stature. If I feel like it would be more attainable if you didn't have to pay for it. Because people don't like to pay. What are you talking about paying for it? Come on, come on, come on, come on.

What do you keep saying? For real, you're paying for all the stuff. Subscription for all the news that these white people was trying to cover up about themselves. So look, now in black free news, Nene Leakes said she's okay with cheating if it's done respectfully. So she was on IG Live with Carlos King, and she said she can get down with respectful cheating, right? She essentially said, what you don't know won't hurt you. But then she gave us the breakdown on cheating etiquette now respect for cheating i could deal with that what you don't know won't hurt you it

won't hurt you however if you're going to cheat you need to do it with respect number one you can never approach your side piece doesn't call my phone saying put my man on the phone b and i'm like well dang girl or it on your social media. Yeah, or when the side piece posts the arm of the man with his tattoos so you could see the year he was born and the year of his daughter. So that you could identify that, yeah, girl, this my man, too. That's disrespectful cheating. Keep your side pieces in check.

I don't even understand that language. No, I believe English. I don't even know what the hell they talking about. Somebody translate for me. Matter in check. I don't even understand that language. No able ingle. I don't even know what the hell they talking about. Somebody translate for me. Matter of fact, I don't even care. Nope. You know what I mean? I got to get a Rosetta Stone.

I don't even know. I don't know what type of. I don't even know. You know what? I don't even know. I couldn't even hear. Exactly. Well, good.

Well, since we're going to move on. My ear is broke. Mine too. To a divorce. Chance the Rapper and wife Kirsten Corley announced that they divorced. They shared the same post to their Instagram stories. Basically,

saying that they asked for privacy after it was publicly announced that they were divorced. They've been married since 2019. And just last month,

they celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary on March 9th. Sad. You know? Yeah, but he was getting his little life shortly after. He was, he had somebody giving him a lap dance. It looked like he was getting his whole life shortly after

he was he had somebody giving him a lap dance it looked like he was at carnival carnival's not going on right now is it that was a while ago

that was a year that was a couple months ago when he did the carnival that was a couple years ago you sure that video was from there yeah okay

at least a year it just circulated again okay because I never seen it from the jump so if that was years ago that was when he was married that was when he was married. That was when he was married.

Okay, yeah, so don't offer up anything. Thank you very much. No, I'm just saying. I don't know. All right, I'm just saying, because that means that was the part of what he was doing when they were married. But yeah, so I just send both of them, you know,

healing energy for each other. Yeah, and it's interesting, too. I'm sure that they gave Chance a lot of flack for this, because, you know, he put out the whole album, and the whole album was... Dedicated to his wife. Yeah, I love my wife. I love my wife. Absolutely.

Yeah. I'm sure they was on him about that. But things change. They do. It doesn't mean that they'll stay divorced, hopefully, because they got children together. Hopefully, they work it out, if it's meant to be. Hopefully, they do.

Maybe you don't want them to get divorced, is what you're saying. Correct. Okay. Well, they both share the same post, so apparently they're on some type of accord like with each other you know what i'm saying because they same exact post and then they said at the end of it said thank you chance and kirsten so they might just be you know they might need a little break whatever like you said hopefully that because they file for divorce they're not they're not divorced yet and maybe they won't so best hopes and wishes to that but i feel like

they look alike is marriage a thing of chance huh like is it a thing of chance like is it like you know it's like a is it a gamble i'm not sure y'all can talk to each other because until i get married i don't know yeah i don't i don't i don't look at it like that but is it because it may work it may not you hope it's forever right but you know what just made me think when when you when you just spoke about it i was wondering if they were going through problems and he did that album as a dedication to to say i love my wife i don't i don't i want to fix this and what if she thought the album was what and that's what caused it all that's what's like you know what yeah like you don't come over this trash you always got to remember that whenever you dedicate an album to somebody. Make sure it's hot. Okay?

All right. Well, that is Jess with The Mess. Absolutely, y'all. I did good today. First of all, drop a please bomb for me in this news. Because I've been delivering some stuff that people have been trying to act like they did. That's right. But they didn't even know.

That's right. All right. Mix is up next. Let's go. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We're back.

A week off. Did you guys do anything at all? Yes. I actually went home and chilled with my man. I was so happy, even though he wasn't off. I still saw him a lot, though. He did loads around Maryland and stuff. I wasn't up here.

I really missed my here. Yeah. So I really missed my bed at home and I missed my state and my land and all that. Yeah, I'm flexing, whatever.

But I just was so, so, so happy to see some grass, my dog, everything. Yeah. I spent time with my son even though I had him

the week before up here. Ash is different when he's at home. He helps me out so, so much more. So, yeah. And she killed the April Fool's home. He helps me out so, so much more. That's right. And she killed

the April Fool's Day comedy show. Salute to everybody that was there. Salute to Rhett Michaels. Jess Hilarious killed it. Shout out to Bruce Bruce. Shout out to Tracy Morgan. Shout to D.L. Hughley.

Shout out to Shante Wayans. Yep. London Brown. Yeah. Gorilla. Yes. Jeezy. Yep.

Salute to everybody who came out to your sold out shows in New Brunswick too. Yeah, up in New Jersey. Yes, at the Stress Factory.

I had four shows there last week, last weekend. That was my first time on stage. Like I said, I told my fans too, I was very transparent.

I was like, yo, I was so nervous. But not nervous because I didn't know what to say. Just, you know,

it's like riding a bike. You get back on stage and you're like, oh, okay. But the build up, because I was off stage for like almost three months's like riding a bike. You get back on stage and you're like, oh, okay. But the build-up, because I was off stage for almost three months, so I was kind of nervous. That was a show that she was supposed

to come to, but it's all right. But I came to the one in Brooklyn. Five minutes there. She's an hour in New Brunswick. I went there on Saturday night. I did, and I appreciate that. To the big-back woman who was very upset with me. Oh, yeah.

She was sitting right in front of me her friend wanted wanted to take a picture and she did not want to take that picture for her friend man man here's the funny part when just start telling the joke all you hear is all the big women and they say he's here he's here. He's here. He's right there. That is where he get him. I was like, man, order everybody a round of chicken wings on me. Oh, not shot. Chicken wings.

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